Reducing the value of a browser fingerprint
a fingerprint value and browser technology, applied in the field of browser privacy protection, can solve the problems of posing a privacy threat, entanglement by ever more sophisticated schemes, etc., and achieve the effect of reducing the value of the browser fingerprin
Inactive Publication Date: 2013-12-17
INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP +1
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The present invention provides a method and system for reducing the value of a browser fingerprint, which is a unique identifier for a user's browser. This may be useful for protecting the privacy of the user's data and for ensuring secure transactions. The method involves receiving a request to provide a list of plugins installed on a browser, and generating a fake list of plugins to respond to the request. This fake list may include some of the commonly installed plugins to make it difficult to identify the user's specific browser. The technical effect is improved security and privacy for users of browsers.
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Unfortunately, as Internet users continue to increase their use of the Internet for traditionally non-electronic endeavors such as shopping, seeking out current events information and the like, users will also continue to encounter ever more sophisticated schemes for invading their privacy.
Accordingly, the fingerprint, that is, the list of plugins tends to identify the specific browser, thereby inherently posing a privacy threat.
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[0012]As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the present invention may be embodied as a system, method or computer program product. Accordingly, aspects of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,”“module” or “system.” Furthermore, aspects of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more computer readable medium(s) having computer readable program code embodied thereon.
[0013]Any combination of one or more computer readable medium(s) may be utilized. The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagne...
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A method, operable on a processing device, for reducing the value of a browser fingerprint may include receiving, by the processing device, a request to provide a list of plugins installed on a browser. The method may also include generating, by the processing device, a fake list of plugins installed on the browser. The method may additionally include communicating, by the processing device, the fake list of plugins installed on the browser in response to the received request to provide a list of plugins installed on the browser.
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BACKGROUND[0001]Aspects of the present invention relate to protecting privacy of a browser user, and more particularly to a method, system and computer program product for reducing the value of a browser fingerprint.[0002]In current times, use of the Internet for web browsing continues to find new users and gain in popularity among historic users in part because of expanding Internet resources and tools such as, for example, widespread availability of online marketplaces, ever-increasing breadth of blogging topics as well as the number and quality of blogs, among others. Unfortunately, as Internet users continue to increase their use of the Internet for traditionally non-electronic endeavors such as shopping, seeking out current events information and the like, users will also continue to encounter ever more sophisticated schemes for invading their privacy.[0003]When an Internet user directs his or her browser to a website, the browser interacts with a web server hosting the website...
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IPC IPC(8): G06F21/00
CPCG06F21/6263
Inventor BELL, DENISE ANNGRIGSBY, TRAVIS M.JENKINS, JANA HELTON
Owner INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP